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Kim Kardashian Channels Her Inner Jackie O!

Kim Kardashian appears on the cover of Interview magazine’s
September issue alongside her daughter North West, and people are not too happy
about it…

The 36-year-old appears on the cover shoot as Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis, with the headline "American's new first lady Kim
Kardashian West and her daughter North West".​

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In the story accompanying the photoshoot, journalist Janet Mock states, "If anyone can be said to embody the American Dream, it's Kim Kardashian West". But the people of the Internet were not having any of it, one person tweeted: "When we start comparing Kim Kardashian to Jackie Kennedy we have officially failed as a country."

Another tweeted, "Kim Kardashian as Jackie Kennedy is disgusting and disgraceful and an absolute travesty."

The controversy is not just due to the fact that Kim Kardashian is dressed as Jackie O for the photoshoot, but because it appears that her skin color was digitally darkened. Twitter use @JamieCan21 was among several people who pointed this out, tweeting: “Anyone else really creeped out that Kim Kardashian is basically in black face for a photo shoot where she is portraying Jackie O? #wtf”

Kim has yet to comment on the situation, but this is not the first time that she is accused of darkening her skin in images. She was accused of sporting blackface in a series of ads for her new KKW Beauty line. She responded to the accusations in June via the New York Times, stating:

“I would obviously never want to offend anyone. I used an amazing photographer and a team of people. I was really tan when we shot the images, and it might be that the contrast was off.”

In the interview featured in the latest issue of the magazine, the mother-of-two highlights that she is “very conscious” of the fact that she and her husband Kanye West are raising biracial children. Kim and Kanye are parents to four-year-old North West and one-year-old Saint West.